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A 33-year-old man was sentenced in San Mateo County Superior Court Friday morning to one year in county jail for stomping his roommate's daughter's kitten to death last November.
Jesus Calderon-Franco, who initially denied killing the animal, pleaded no contest to charges of felony animal abuse for killing the 4-month-old kitten, named "Pucci," on Nov. 30.
At the sentencing this morning, Deputy District Attorney Sean Dabel called the crime "vicious" and asked Judge Clifford Cretan to impose a prison sentence.
Defense attorney Edward Rojas, however, argued that although the incident was "cruel" and "inexcusable," Calderon-Franco had no previous criminal record.
"Sending him to prison is not going to bring back the kitten," Rojas said.
Calderon-Franco killed the kitten allegedly because he was angry with his roommate's 4-year-old daughter for drawing on the bathroom door.
Dabel said Calderon-Franco was under the influence of alcohol and methamphetamine when he saw the drawings, and threw the girl's cat off a second-floor balcony as a punishment.
Calderon-Franco then went downstairs and stomped on the kitten, fracturing its body in several places until it died, Dabel said.
The girl and Calderon-Franco's roommate were not home at the time, but the roommate's brother was home and allegedly witnessed the attack.
The roommate's brother called the roommate, who returned home and confronted Calderon-Franco. He denied attacking the animal, Dabel said.
But Calderon-Franco's roommate saw blood on the sidewalk and followed the trail to find his daughter's kitten dead in a nearby trashcan.
"The brother said (Calderon-Franco) was laughing as he did this, and he took no responsibility after," Dabel said. "The family has been traumatized by this attack."
In addition to a year in county jail, Calderon-Franco was sentenced to three years probation and was ordered not to make contact with the family who owned the kitten.
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Friday, February 6, 2009
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THIS IS A DISGRACE...ONE YEAR IS BETTER THAN THE USUAL SLAP ON THE WRIST BUT FAR FROM THE LIFE SENTENCE HE SHOULD HAVE OR AT LEAST 50 YEARS IN PRISON FOR KILLING, BRUTALLY MURDERING AN INNOCENT LIVING BEING..IF THE LAW, JUDGES, LAWYERS AND PEOPLE LOOKED AT THESE CRIMES AS EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE, MURDER OF ANOTHER LIVING BEING, ANIMALS BEING EVERYBIT AS IMPORTANT AND VIABLE AS PEOPLE, THE SENTENSE WOULD FIT THE CRIME....THIS WAS AT THE VERY LEAST SECOND DEGREE FELONY MURDER ONLY DUE TO THE FACT IT MAY HAVE BEEN SPUR OF THE MOMENT INSTEAD OF PLANNED AHEAD, PERHAPS, HOWEVER, ANYONE ABLE TO COMMIT SUCH HEINOUS AND VICIOUS CRIMES AGAINST ANY LIVING BEING, ANIMAL WILL CERTAINLY DO IT AGAIN, AND PREDIPOSES THEM TO REPEAT VIOLENCE AGAINST ANIMALS AND PEOPLE INCLUDING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. JUST BECAUSE HE HAS NEVER BEEN CAUGHT ABUSING AND KILLING ANOTHER ANIMAL OR A PERSON WHICH I SUSPECT HE HAS, IS MOST LIKELY THE ONLY REASON HE HAS NO PRIOR CRIMINAL HISTORY, LUCK OF NOT BEING CAUGHT...THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN SET AS A PRESEDENCE FOR OTHER OFFENDERS...ABUSE AN ANIMAL, GO TO JAIL, A LONG TIME!
ReplyDelete^^^LOL... Idiot....
ReplyDeletewow, somebody forgot to take his pills this morning it seems...
ReplyDeleteCaps Lock... Learn the meaning.
ReplyDeleteits a fucking cat. Who the fuck cares, you people need to grow up and be able to distinguish between cats dogs and humans!
ReplyDeleteYou must care because you visited my blog which is about nothing but animals and choose to read an article-*and* post a comment.
ReplyDeleteThe caps lock crusader had a good point. If you are violent towards a animal you will probably be violent towards people.
ReplyDeleteViolence breeds violence, doesn't take a psych class to understand this simple concept.
No a cat isn't as "important" in our society as a human being but clearly our society is far from perfect i.e. global warming, ecological devastation, serial killers, child pedophelia etc.
We are a fucked up species and acting like we aren't really won't solve anything but it will make you feel better for another afternoon.
Sigh @ The Apathetic
I completely agree anon.
ReplyDeleteSo I saw this link on Shoutwire. I agree that if he a violent towards animals that humans take a pets then he would probably be violent towards humans as well. Also, he admitted to being on serious drugs at the time, so do not forget that he is a "drug addict who kills pets violently" thus in my mind justifying the setence. I believe he should be forced to pay for his own anger management classes for 5 years also.
ReplyDeleteA bunch of people should arrange to kidnap him. Drive him to the backwoods of the appalachian mountains and let the rednecks make him squeal like a pig:)
ReplyDeleteThen tie him to a tree, pour gasoline on him, then set him on fire.
Dance and celebrate that humans are able to practice their own form of justice rather than let some stupid judicial system process him, expoit him, then send the psychopath back out into the human population to strike again..It's only a matter of time.
I hope to see the day when the masses rebel against, laws, taxes, racism and psychopaths.
This kind of news makes me want to get away from the human population and become self sufficient.. Make my darn laws and rules:)
F**ck societies laws and rules. The courts love to set these types of human and animal exterminators free. Because it gives lawyers, judges and police a way to make money..
No one cares about morality in this world..
Society needs to be educated about the dyamics of sociopathy/psychopaths. They lack empathy and enjoy the attention after getting caught.
ReplyDeletePunishment and conseqences do not affect them.
They like harsh negative attention. It makes them feel important.
They have a completely different type of mental wiring.
They know what they are doing, but do are not capable of relating to how this traumatizes others, your pain is their glory. Like a terrorist..
One may live next to you and you may like him and think he is sweet and helpful.. But at times their mask of sanity slips as in this case.
He probable would have beat the child to death if he were alone with her and releasing him from jail will allow him to have another opportunity to hurt a child or a woman next.
Guarantee. Welcome to the world of psychopaths. Remember, they will do something right in front of you, then eloquently deny it.
The system does not protect us against these personality disorders running rampant in our society.
These are the men who frequently abuse women too.. But people stupidly call them batterers and abusers.. They are simply sociopaths and will hurt your finances, turn you family and community and employers against you. They will ruin your life and traumatize you with acts such as what we are discussing on this forum...
It's time the public gets educated about these toxic personalties out there. They will literally make you sick and depressed because most people don't understand the signs and dynamics of these characters... Sad, but true!
seems there are a few who posted here that should be put in the bog along with the scum bag who did this crime. Losers, anyone who thinks an animal is not as important as any human and more than many, is an egotistical jerk. it is only vanity that makes an human think they are more important, and a loser coward that hurts any animal. I think alittle justice handed out by those who care for animals, would be a nice change instead of our lacking judicial system!. YOU who wrote, Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteits a fucking cat. Who the fuck cares, you people need to grow up and be able to distinguish between cats dogs and humans!
February 8, 2009 10:29 AM
We can start with you!.;.I am sure the world would NOT miss you at all!...you and those like you. You are the kind of piece of garbage who is such a huge coward, you make the lot of decent humans and any other living being puke!
There is no place on this earth for animal abusers, and good people need to be a louder voice and take greater action. If the law who has the ability to punish these criminals, and is so pathetically lenient towards abusers and killers, then it is time for a change, and these abusers need to be removed from society, if that means putting them on a slow shuttle to mars!
AND if you dont care about animals, them why the hell are you reading and responding to this or any thing about animals, anonymous animal hating loser! I bet your mother would be proud..NOT..what kind of upbringing did you have or not have should be the question, unless you are just a bad seed right out of the womb, like most animal abusers and murderers!
However, thank GOD there are those like a few here and many others in the world who do have a moral conscience, compassion and care for animals. BE A LOUD VOICE against animal abuse!
I agree that this man is VERY sick for doing what he did to that innocent kitten, but instead of hating him we should pray for his soul and pray that he accepts Jesus as his Savior. The Lord LOVES all creatures unconditionally; humans AND animals. If this man would get saved he would grow to love what the Lord loves and hate what the Lord hates and the Lord LOVES animals. So just pray for him. That is the BEST justice that can be done for this kitten. God bless you all.
ReplyDeleteForget your Lord, this man will hopefully get what he deserves when the other inmates find out what he did. Sick scum like this (and the intellectual children who defend him on here) have no place in a decent society.
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